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Rebel with a Clause by Ellen Jovin
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A fresh and democratic take on language by a gifted teacher. --Mary Norris
Jovin] never hectors, never finger-points; she enlightens and illuminates. This is lovely work. --Benjamin Dreyer
An unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian.
When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a GRAMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Grammar Table was such a hit--attracting the attention of the>New York Times, NPR, and>CBS Evening News--that Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from writers, lawyers, editors, businesspeople, students, bickering couples, and anyone else who uses words in this world.
In>Rebel with a Clause, Jovin tackles what is most on people's minds, grammatically speaking--from the Oxford comma to the places prepositions can go, the likely lifespan of>whom, semicolonphobia, and more.
Punctuated with linguistic debates from tiny towns to our largest cities, this grammar romp will delight anyone wishing to polish their prose or revel in our age-old, universal fascination with language.
Ellen has spent her entire professional life (nearly 30 years) either writing professionally or teaching English writing and language skills. In the early 1990s, she taught English as an adjunct lecturer at New York University and in the City University of New York system.
She then spent several years as a full-time freelancer, writing about business and other subjects for magazines and corporate clients.
Since 2001 she has been teaching seminars
in business writing, email etiquette, grammar, editing/proofreading, and English as a foreign language at major corporations throughout the U.S., occasionally beyond.
She also offers coaching in English to non-native speakers, typically senior executives at professional services firms.
She is a speaker and writer about language and polyglotism and blogs about different languages and reviews language-learning products for her website Words & Worlds of New York.
She is also the guru behind The Grammar Table, a table she schleps around New York City to solve the world's grammar problems.
Ellen has a B.A. in German studies from Harvard University and an M.A. in comparative literature from UCLA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780063433878 |
| ISBN 10 | 0063433877 |
| Title | Rebel with a Clause |
| Author | Ellen Jovin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2025-05-20 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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